Angel

We want to introduce you to Angel (pronounced "on-hell" in spanish). He is a little boy who lives at Casa de Fe (House of Faith)--an orphanage in town. We don't really know much about him--he was left at the orphanage without a lot of information a little over a month ago. He came from one of the towns in the jungle and is somewhere between 18 months and 2 years old. But a little hard to tell because he was malnourished when he arrived.

Mike drove up to Quito with the director of the orphanage 2 weeks ago--so they had 10 hours in the car to talk about what goes on at the orphanage. At times Patty-Sue tries to find missionaries to "foster" or care for some of the kids who need a little extra attention for some reason. They have some very good caregivers, "tias" or aunties in spanish, that look after the kids the majority of the time. They have also recently started a school for the kids as well. I've added a link to their website on this blog if you want to know more. Anyways, we got to "baby-sit" Angel the last 2 Saturdays.

It's been very fun to have Angel in our house. Sydney absolutely loves being like a big sister or babysitter. Sam's not too sure still--but he enjoyed reading to him and teaching him some spanish and english. Of course our house no longer has many baby toys so we made due with laundry baskets, buckets, tupperware and balls.

So any visitors that need a baby-fix--Come On Down! There are lots of opportunities to love on kids.